My name is Keith W. Rushing, I am an American the age of 68. I have been in the world wide web since 1993. My first computer was an Apple, and to this day it is my only preferred CPU. I currently am using Apple's latest iteration the Apple Mackbook Air M1 using the ARM architecture and can report that it is flawless and lightening fast. I highly recommend Apple products.
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I am a former newspaperman, mechanic, trouble-shooter, the proverbial jack-of-all-trades and a outright liberal radical bleeding-heart Democratic freedom fighter. I regard freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and everything else the Constitution of the United Staes provides for and represents as sacrosanct.
Allow me to precede my commentary with one main stipulation: Donald Trump was an aberration and an exception only because he was a stooge and useful idiot recruited and groomed by the Russian (former USSR) republic, and he is in no way representative of American's, or the United States of America. Russia assisted him and interfered in the US election in many ways, most importantly via the repurposing of an old weapon: Propaganda.
Vested interests are precisely why Tillerson (former CEO EXXON) was Trump's Secretary of State. EXXOn has vast oil lease holdings in Russia inaccessible by US sanctions. The primary reason Russia assisted tRump; perpetuation of the status quo, pump and burn, and the resistance of interests in advancing green technologies.
This is heavily documented and elucidated on my web sites section : About icutv
Regarding propaganda/misinformation/disinformation per se: In the 1980's through the 1990's I was fascinated with shortwave radio. I was so taken with international communications I eventually became a paid reception reporter for the BBC World Service. In fact, when Mikhail Gorbachev was deposed in a coup d'etat it was through BBC Russian Service radio that he knew what was happening as the USSR deteriorated. The USSR was so secretive in those days they literally had a network of 100 transmitters around its enormous border specifically for jamming the frequencies of BBC, VOA, AFRTS, Radio Free Europe etcetera. As reception monitors we often heard and reported when the jamming was ongoing and which frequencies were impacted.
In a real sense, Radio this was the precursor to the WWW. One of the first moves against its citizenry by the Nazi Party was to confiscate all radios capable of receiving any communications from neighboring countries. The Nazi's subsequently issued radios with only the capability to receive approved frequencies.
As an aside, the people of Japan had never heard the voice of their Emperor Hirohito until the day he officially surrendered. Emperor Hirohito was considered by the Japanese to be a living God. The authoritarian effort to control the free-flow of information continues to this day, only in a new form.
I specifically specialized in monitoring Communist countries or the Soviet Block, also known as "behind the Iron Curtain " principally the USSR in regard to espionage and propaganda. I communicated with Radio Kiev, Radio Prague, Vilnius, Berlin, Sofia and Moscow of course, and many others. I worked for newspapers in those days and collected articles that were neutral, or favorable to those nations without being bombastic or denigrating. When I sent reception reports (called QSL's) to these countries I included the clippings to get past the official government censors. This was somewhat risky because the USA considered these nations to be "sponsors of international terriorism" and citizens were forbidden to communicate with them. Since I was using the US Mail, I knew the authorities opened and read my letters. Because it was a form of quiet diplomacy (as opposed to espionage) it was tacitly allowed, or tolerated. Nevertheless, Russian and China government suppression and censorship prevails in this new cyber medium.
Owning A Shortwave Radio Is Once Again A Subversive Activity
Russia is stepping up its campaign to control the internet.
End of an Era, Shortwave Radio
Happily, Starlink starlink.com/ will ideally provide unfettered access to the internet for all people everywhere, so the mission of furthering free speech and free thought will increase exponentially. The government censors will not be able to control or circumvent truth. I believe that SpaceX Starlink will be a boon to humanity and will invaluably promote democracy .
I am constantly very busy, read incessantly, and am politically engaged with numerous highly intelligent personages on twitter: sobroquet Anyone is welcome to join me and engage in that venue. I love the internet and am an advocate for international unfettered unrestricted access to everyone in the world, irrespective of their nationality, religion or race.
2018 The American people realized the nation was being undermined by an authoritarian crime syndicate and had to retrieve power for congressional committee investigations to corroborate such an irrefutable incursion and usurpation.
2020 The people therefore retrieved the Senate and Executive.
2022 We trounce GOP
Very best regards,
Keith W. Rushing
aka sobroquet
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